Athentech Unveils Two New Version of Perfectly Clear (Including a Free Version)

NOTE: Athentech, the makers of Perfectly Clear help support Photofocus. The company also works closely with Photofocus as many of its new features and presets are designed by Photofocus authors.

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Athentech, makers of Perfectly Clear Complete just unveiled two new products and confirmed some big news. We wanted to let you know about these changes as they’re great news for photographers.

A free version of their time-saving plugin

A streamlined version called Perfectly Clear Essentials for Landscape, Travel, and General photographers

The forthcoming standalone version

Perfectly Clear (Free Version)

Athentech is doing something different these days; they’ve made a free versionof their popular plug-in that’s 100% free. It never expires, it’s not a trial. While the full version offers 37 different adjustments, the free version offers 10. But these ten are quite useful to all photographers.

Image Ambulance. Serves as exposure compensation in post, and is useful for recovering over or underexposed images with just a small adjustment.

ND Filter. Knocks down areas that are too intense or oversaturated.

Exposure. Analyzes every pixel in a photo and sets the proper exposure. This tech is amazing, and I use it all the time on every photo as a perfect finish. Can adjust exposure with no effect on color or saturation.

Face-Aware Exposure. Calculates the correct exposure for the scene but auto recognizes faces and favors them in calculating the perfect balance to the background. This makes the exposure adjustment incredibly useful.

Shine Removal. A super easy to use adjustment that removes sweat or oil shine from skin.

The product also offers a great collection of time-saving presets. These can be adjusted with the Strength slider which lets you increase more or less. These seven presets are a sampler of the 56 including with Perfectly Clear Complete.

Perfect Exposure —Outdoor, Night, Fill Flash, and De-haze

Perfect Eyes — Racoon Eyes

Perfect Skin — Light Powder

Perfect Color —Rich Color

There are also 12 LOOKs which offer a unique way to stylize your image. These are artistic ways to manipulate color or simulate film stocks and can be applied both subtly or dramatically to match your taste. These are 12 sampled from the 42 included with Perfectly Clear Complete.

The free version of the software lets you batch process up to 5 photos at once in Lightroom (the full version is unlimited). You also can’t make your own presets or import them, but Athentech offers several for sale (and even free) sets for download in their store that let you extend the functionality.

Perfectly Clear Essentials

Athentech has released a new product called Perfectly Clear Essentials. This product contains all of the Tone, Color, and Details controls that can give you perfect exposure, great color, and sharp photos with no noise. All of the preset functionality, as well as Creative LOOKs and Corrective Filters, are also unlocked.

It is virtually identical to Perfectly Clear Complete except in two ways.

It removes controls for all of the Beautify technology. These adjustments are helpful for portrait and wedding photographers, but not really useful to landscape and travel folks.

It removed the batch export module from Lightroom.

While both of the above are useful, they are designed for pros who need the most time-saving options for processing portraits. If you do need portrait adjustments, you can easily add the Kristina Sherk preset packs or a new forthcoming one from Matthew Jordan Smith.

Here’s a special deal just for Photofocus readers. Get Perfectly Clear Essentials plus a great pack of presets and LOOKs for travel and landscape photos. The bundle is $49 USD (Save $29).

You can also create your own presets and exchange your favorite settings with other users. This is a great deal if you want the time-saving features as well as advanced technology to unlock perfect exposure and sharper images.

Perfectly Clear Standalone

All three Perfectly Clear plug-ins currently work with Photoshop, Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, Paintshop Pro as plugins. They also work in Photos for Mac, Apple Aperture, and Capture One as external editors. The big news is that a standalone of Perfectly Clear is expected really soon (and will be a free upgrade). The company is adding support to open, save, crop and print images, as well as run the tool without the need for a host application. This update is expected in Q3 of this year and is a welcome addition for those looking for an all-in one answer.

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